What Are Your Names: Alex Wilton, Preet Kaur, Mia De Jager
Puna Wānanga Area/Class: FLIGHT
What your project is about:
We are part of a wider group who are all connected with a Junior High School Flight time Block 3 on a Wednesday.
For example:
Preparing and running a decathlon which is a 10 event athletic contest which can include 100-metre, 400-metre, and 1500-metre runs, the javelin and discus throws, shot put, pole vault, high jump, and long jump - Alex Wilton.
Making real life models of houses and teaching architecture and teaching the basics of making a house - Preet Kaur
Making bite sized foods and cooking bite sized foods - Mia De Jager
Future plans:
Meeting people and forming connections.
Making a connection with students so that they have someone when they move to the Senior High School and making it easier for them to move schools.
What has been the highlight of your learning in Puna Wānanga so far?
Meeting people and forming connections.
Seeing the smiles on people’s faces.
Having the chance to be able to teach.
THREE skills you have developed through being involved in your project:
Whakaaro Taatari/Critical Thinking
Understanding the teacher's perspective, what can be done better if something goes wrong.
Designing and presenting their pitch. Analysing the company, thinking about how to design the pitch to fit the needs of the company.
Analysing, evaluating, being curious, asking critical questions, seeking different perspectives.
Auahatanga/Creativity
Using different teaching and learning approaches when we are in the spaces we work with.
Using imagination and being innovative to create a unique pitch to make it online.
Using imagination, being innovative, originality, showing openness to new ideas.
Whakawhiti Whakaaro/Communication
Connecting with the teachers talking to them and understanding them and what they are trying to teach. Connecting with the students.
Communicating with franchisees out of school as well as communicating well with teachers and classmates inside of school, as well as business owners outside of school.
Verbal, written and nonverbal: communicating ideas, listening, speaking and empathising.
How can the reader help/support us:
Understand that the people running the flight time are trying to make a difference.
Showing that there is a fun side to learning.
